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    What bogan is bashing together

    So I have lots of small projects on the go, most are done with the 'why the fuck not' attitude, so, in the interests of encouraging youse fullas to do similar stuff, I'll just post up some of the things I'm up to.

    First up, heres 4 instructables we put together recently:

    http://www.instructables.com/id/Gyro...ad-Reckonator/
    http://www.instructables.com/id/LCD-Screen-Gantry/
    http://www.instructables.com/id/Help...hroom-Octopus/
    http://www.instructables.com/id/Fnork-20/

    And my big project at the moment is a garage CNC, 675x458x160 envelope; currently it'll do wood ok but noisy, so I'm building a new spindle to remove the mm or two play in the router I'm currently using, attached the pic of the new spindle. Can't find fuck all of the mill though, will get some later. It also is pretty handy with a pen!

    PS, this is in modifying motorbikes cos a lot of this stuff is getting the tooling to do so, and will be plenty of small jobs put up here too; also, it's pretty much the same skill set and interest.
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    at that octopus. Be awesome having that

    I do like that screen gantry though, thats very cool
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    be interested to see pictures of your mill, you need some decent ridigdy for doing
    alloy and steel, though the noise of mine on alloy is as bad as the router going hard!

    I would'nt mind building a bigger unit as I need 800 travel in one axis..

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    Here's the mill, it's not the most rigid (flying gantrys generally aren't) but I'm hopeful it'll do alright on aluminium. What's your setup like carburator?
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    Also cake , good engineers are often decent cooks too, same sort of processes.
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    And working on a vibratory finisher, to debur and polish parts the mill spits out. Currently trying to track down a source for media, it sounds like plastic cones for deburring, and walnut shell + rouge for polishing. Will see how it turns out anyway. Top table has a motor with eccentric weight, and that is all isolated from the base through a fork spring; fairly common design, so I'm hopefully it'll work once I get the media in there.
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    The cake is a lie
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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanwhite View Post
    The cake is a lie
    a tasty tasty lie
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    Loving the Fnork 2.0 but I am questioning whether you are living in NZ. That piece of meat you're cutting (and eating ) Looks f'ing revolting. Shame! (but neat ideas :-) )
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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    Here's the mill, it's not the most rigid (flying gantrys generally aren't) but I'm hopeful it'll do alright on aluminium. What's your setup like carburator?
    hopefully ive attached the right piccies, mine is a direct copy of jasons ( ZEALCNC ) desktop
    im currently looking to build a gantry hybrid, fixed brigde but the table moves.. as i only
    need limited area. but lenght! at least 800mm

    most of my machine work is A4 size and third axis

    polishing media, at anzes we used to use a ceramic trilob wet in a rumbler ( made alloy parts look smick )
    ive used walnut and corn husch before for fine polishing, the thing you do need is a circular chamber else
    the parts end up in the corner and does'nt work that well..

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    looks pretty nice, 4th axis is on the to do list for mine too. Hybrid sounds like it would be the way to go. I think minimizing the working height is also a good way to get rigidity. My next one might just be a plate mill, only run about 50mm depth, maybe a few flat bar feeders and autoclamps if I can get work for it... This one was designed to be as multipurpose as the budget/design allowed, learn heaps from it, and then make more specialised ones for production parts; will be putting an MDF CF tank mold through at some point though, that should be fun
    You had much jobs through yours?

    Yeh I've heard tyres from ride on lawn mowers make good chambers, will use a few old bowls/pots/pans while I figure out what a good size/shape is, round bottom bowls ten to turn the parts over more I think.
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    Wouldn't be a proper sunday without a bit of shed time!

    Spindle stuff in main bit, spindle spanners on right, and rearsets/chain roller/kickstand in back corner.
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    You fellows and your wang fang doodle mills and cnc do dads.

    I smash out and cut everything by hand; old school rule.

    Still, some of the more useful things I'd like to put on a bike would have been nice (and quicker I guess?) if I had that kind of kit and the space for it.

    Frankly I think we need community workshops for people with bikes.
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    All I read was CNC over and over...


    Your going to make some cnc bling for my bike?
    No dont its not needed..
    oh if you insist but..
    Ok ok sure if you really want to..

    Well if your going to be like that you can get fucked..


    OK FINE MAKE IT...




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    Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Rider View Post
    You fellows and your wang fang doodle mills and cnc do dads.

    I smash out and cut everything by hand; old school rule.

    Still, some of the more useful things I'd like to put on a bike would have been nice (and quicker I guess?) if I had that kind of kit and the space for it.

    Frankly I think we need community workshops for people with bikes.
    Yeh, would take about 10x as long to hand make fancy machined bike parts though, most people just get a bit more blocky when its hand made.

    Well hopefully I'll be able to open my workshop up a bit for other modders, might need a bigger one though...

    Quote Originally Posted by DrunkenMistake View Post
    All I read was CNC over and over...


    Your going to make some cnc bling for my bike?
    No dont its not needed..
    oh if you insist but..
    Ok ok sure if you really want to..

    Well if your going to be like that you can get fucked..


    OK FINE MAKE IT...



    CNC not quite operational for bike bling yet, but I'll let you know when it is. Also, you think CNC is bling, wait till I get the vibrator polisher sorted
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